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In Memory…Roger Ebert (1942 – 2013)

April 5, 2013 / 3 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Uncategorized
In Memory…Roger Ebert (1942 – 2013)

I started reading Roger Ebert’s reviews when I was in university and just discovering that films were about more than just fun. Yes, they were entertainment, but they were also art, and learning about directors like David Lynch, and Stanley Kubrick, and Quentin Tarantino was a huge eye-opener for me – I think it helped take me out of the idea that our world is such a perfectly safe, happy place where only good things happen to good people. Once I found out about films, I stumbled onto Ebert. I liked his reviews because I tended to agree with a […]